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Diogenes and Alexander 戴奥吉尼斯和亚历山大 The Dog Has His Day Gilbert Highet This article by the late classicist Gilbert Highet describes a meeting between two sharply contrasting personalities of history: Alexander the Great and Diogenes. This selection originally appeared in Horizon, the first in a series entitled Great Confrontations. 此文是由晚期著名的古典学者Gilbert Highet 所写，描述了历史上两位性格极端伟大人物的会面场面：亚历山大国王和戴奥吉尼斯。本文选择来自 Horizon，一篇名叫“伟大的会面”的开始部分。 Lying on the bare earth, shoeless, bearded, half-naked, he looked like a beggar or a lunatic(神经病,疯子). He was one, but not the other. He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn (拂晓), scratched, done his business like a dog at the roadside, washed at the public fountain, begged a piece of breakfast bread and a few olives, eaten them squatting on the ground, and washed them down with a few handfuls of water scooped from the spring. (Long ago he had owned a rough wooden cup, but he threw it away when he saw a boy drinking out of his hollowed hands.) Having no work to go to and no family to provide for, he was free. 他躺在光溜溜的地上，赤着脚，胡子拉茬的，半裸着身子，模样活像个乞丐或疯子。他是乞丐，而不是疯子。大清早，他随着初升的太阳睁开双眼，搔了搔痒，便像狗一样在路边忙开了他的公事”。他在公共喷泉边抹了把脸，向路人讨了一块面包和几颗橄榄，然后蹲在地上大嚼起来，又掬起几捧泉水送入肚中。他不需要去工作，也不需要养家，是一个逍遥自在的人。As the market place filled up with shoppers and merchants and gossipers and sharpers (a cheater, esp. a cardsharper) and slaves and foreigners, he had strolled through it for an hour or two. Everybody knew him, or knew of him. They would throw sharp questions at him and get sharper answers. Sometimes they threw jeers, and got jibes; sometimes bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and got a shower of stones and abuse(漫骂). They were not quite sure whether he was mad or not. He knew they were mad, all mad, each in a different way; they amused him. 街市上熙熙攘攘，到处是顾客、商人、奴隶、异邦人，这时他也会在其中转悠一二个钟头。人人都认识他，或者都听说过他。他们会问他一些尖刻的问题，而他也更尖刻地回答。有时他们丢给他一些食物，得到很少的感谢；有时他们恶作剧地扔给他卵石子，他破口大骂，毫不客气地回敬一阵石头雨。他们拿不准他是不是疯了。他却认定他们疯了，只是他们的疯各有各的不同；他们令他感到好笑。 Now he was ba